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You Won’t Be With Me Tomorrow

You Won’t Be With Me Tomorrow

Hardback hardcover English 88 pages 17 × 22.1

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You Won’t Be With Me Tomorrow continues a narrative Harvey Benge began in Some Things You Should Have Told Me, published in 2013. This later book considers separation and the distrust that can follow the breakdown of a relationship. Its subject is conveyed through recurring visual situations and suggestive objects, allowing emotional connections to develop without reducing each image to a single explanation.

The publisher describes figures who appear screened off, turned away or separated by barriers. These motifs connect bodily vulnerability with the difficulty of reaching another person. An apple, a mirror or a closed door can carry associations that extend beyond the object itself. Benge’s photographs invite readers to notice those associations and to consider how their meanings change in relation to the surrounding pictures.

The project also leaves room for ambiguity. Light entering through a door or falling across a track offers a different mood from the images of retreat and isolation. A crossed wooden form may suggest a prohibition or a sign of affection. Rather than settling these alternatives, the book gives uncertainty a place within its account of human connection. That openness makes the relationship with the earlier volume especially relevant: the later work returns to an emotional territory instead of presenting it as resolved.

Dewi Lewis published the book in 2015 as a hardback of 88 pages, containing 68 colour photographs and measuring 221 by 170 millimetres. The publisher identifies it as Benge’s sixth book with the imprint. For readers interested in photographic narrative, it provides an example of how figures, gestures and everyday signs can be brought together to explore feelings that resist a straightforward account.

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